According to Count Khevenhüller’s Tagebuch, Marianne left the Hofburg for Hetzendorf on 2 May to spend the summer season there. This former hunting lodge was considered far more suitable for her convalescence than the vast, overcrowded, and noisy Schönbrunn.
The cosy and compact Hetzendorf Palace has remained largely unchanged to this day, making it easy to imagine the atmosphere in which Marianne spent the early summer of 1757. Its Baroque interiors — the aula, the mirror gallery, the ballroom, the Chinese cabinet, and the palace chapel — are authentically reproduced in the narrative, as are the frescoes and other decorations.
After studying the ground plan of the palace, I placed Marianne’s apartment on the upper floor, facing the park. Counting the windows from the left, the first belongs to the dressing room; the second and third to Marianne’s bedroom; the fourth to her study; the fifth and sixth to the ladies-in-waiting’s parlour; and the seventh and eighth, in the protruding section, to the salon.
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